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- catalog abstract ""Skeptics have cast doubt on the idea that scientific theories give us a true picture of an objective world. Lawrence Sklar examines three kinds of skeptical arguments about scientific truth, and explores the important role that these play within foundational science itself, especially physics." "The underlying theme of Theory and Truth is that science and philosophy are essential to, and inextricable from, each other. One cannot understand the methods of science except by understanding philosophy, and one cannot fruitfully pursue philosophy of science without understanding foundational science as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11555043.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Skeptics have cast doubt on the idea that scientific theories give us a true picture of an objective world. Lawrence Sklar examines three kinds of skeptical arguments about scientific truth, and explores the important role that these play within foundational science itself, especially physics." "The underlying theme of Theory and Truth is that science and philosophy are essential to, and inextricable from, each other. One cannot understand the methods of science except by understanding philosophy, and one cannot fruitfully pursue philosophy of science without understanding foundational science as well."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Theory and Truth -- 2. Ontological Elimination -- 1. Ontological Elimination Founded on Critique -- 2. Features Other than Critique that Motivate Eliminative Reinterpretations -- 3. Common Elements in Critical Reconstructions -- 4. Some Varieties of the Notion of "Observational Content" and of the Elimination of the Unobservable -- 5. Doubts Concerning Naturalisms -- 6. The Place of Global Empiricist Programs -- 3. Idealization -- 1. The Non-Isolability of Systems -- 2. The Partial Nature of Theories -- 3. The Role of Limits -- 4. Models -- 4. Transience -- 1. Kinds of Cognitive Attitudes -- 2. Thinning Content -- 3. Dealing with Transience within Science -- 4. Reconstructing the Present as a Guide to the Future -- 5. Theories about our Theories -- 5. Conclusions.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 153 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198238495".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "501 21".
- catalog subject "Knowledge, Theory of.".
- catalog subject "Physics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Q175 .S5755 2000".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Theory and Truth -- 2. Ontological Elimination -- 1. Ontological Elimination Founded on Critique -- 2. Features Other than Critique that Motivate Eliminative Reinterpretations -- 3. Common Elements in Critical Reconstructions -- 4. Some Varieties of the Notion of "Observational Content" and of the Elimination of the Unobservable -- 5. Doubts Concerning Naturalisms -- 6. The Place of Global Empiricist Programs -- 3. Idealization -- 1. The Non-Isolability of Systems -- 2. The Partial Nature of Theories -- 3. The Role of Limits -- 4. Models -- 4. Transience -- 1. Kinds of Cognitive Attitudes -- 2. Thinning Content -- 3. Dealing with Transience within Science -- 4. Reconstructing the Present as a Guide to the Future -- 5. Theories about our Theories -- 5. Conclusions.".
- catalog title "Theory and truth : philosophical critique within foundational science / Lawrence Sklar.".
- catalog type "text".